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Question about SWAIN and a few other champions.

I've been debating for awhile now to spend about 20 dollars or so on Riot Points. First on my list to get on SWAIN but someone informed me that he is now either useless or some other caster can do his job better... Can someone elaborate?

Second I am looking for TANK character.

The two that caught my eye was Rammus and Malphite, any opinions on these two?

Swain is by no means useless, he can be extremely good. The problem here is that people are expecting him to be some sort of nuke ap carry beast when his mechanics just don't work out that way. In my personal opinion he's best played as a support character that is good at weakening and setting up a target for a kill. Basically, he requires a lot more skill than most other champs to achieve results and getting good at landing his w is a key factor.

As far as your choice of tanks, both are good, but Rammus is the only one that's a true tank. Malphite is great but he's more offtank/initiator material.

Swain is great dude, my buddy at 1600 ELO or so mains him and never does bad. Just get a RoA, Rylai's and maybe a Banshee Veil and you have 3k hp, then get a Zhonya and thats like 300+ AP with his ulti survivability + CC. He is amazing.

Swain is great dude, my buddy at 1600 ELO or so mains him and never does bad. Just get a RoA, Rylai's and maybe a Banshee Veil and you have 3k hp, then get a Zhonya and thats like 300+ AP with his ulti survivability + CC. He is amazing.

the tricky part with swain is landing his root. thats the reason why they say others can do better, annie's stun is instant for example. and he has to run into the enemy champs to use his ult, so that requires a bit of timing or be a bit tanky.